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Post by MWGallaher on May 15, 2024 21:49:46 GMT -5
The dog that chased his owner off the cover of his own comic book:
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Post by MWGallaher on May 15, 2024 21:42:05 GMT -5
STARSTRUCK #5, Mike Kaluta, 1985 Verloona Ti and the Galactic Girl Guides! I never noticed until now that it says "Verloona" vertically on the right side of the image!
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Post by MWGallaher on May 12, 2024 14:15:11 GMT -5
Here's something I overlooked when this thread was active: The Hourman Slurpee cup from 1973: This cup used Bernard Baily's splash page art from ADVENTURE COMICS #55, October 1940, and includes Minutemen of America members Jimmy Martin and Thorndyke, both of whom were eventually co-stars in the Hourman feature. As seen on the full checklist below, was the 54th out of 60, as depicted in the advertising. As I recall, these cups were not issued sequentially, and they weren't numbered on the cups themselves. Since 7-Eleven was my primary source of comics purchases, I accumulated many of these, including Hourman. There were some real disappointments to be drawn from the collection, like Ma and Pa Kent, and I didn't appreciate that the source material seemed to be whatever was convenient, including official (but often out-dated) licensing images like The Joker, cover corner illustrations like Aquaman and Green Lantern, and random panels that happened to feature a Superman or Batman Family supporting character.
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2024 19:20:27 GMT -5
I think they should do one about the stormtrooper who bonks his head on the door, on the Death Star. Follow him from Imperial Boot Camp, through Star Destroyer duty, to the Death Sta, then have him in sick bay, with a concussion, when the Rebels attack. MWGallaher's already mentioned this just a few posts back. Well, then, that comic would have an audience of at least two of us! With Cody's ideas, they could expand from the one-shot mine would have been into a whole miniseries!
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Post by MWGallaher on May 5, 2024 16:59:52 GMT -5
Maybe the infamous head-bumping Stormtrooper? We could explore the medical care the Empire provides to its cannon fodder, explore the Death Star sick bay, find out about their physical competency testing, learn about any mandatory retirement policies... After all, bureaucratic detail made The Phantom Menace a big hit, right?
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Post by MWGallaher on May 2, 2024 6:14:24 GMT -5
Over in this week's cover contest, Icctrombone posted this entry: I usually find it true that in this age of collected editions, comic compilations intended to be and promoted as "comprehensive" rarely are. DC's Steve Ditko omnibuses leave out a couple of Ditko Legion stories, MTU and MTIO collections have to skip over issues with characters whose license Marvel no longer had at the time, Marvel's exhaustive Tomb of Dracula collections leave out one (admittedly easily overlooked) story from one B&W magazine, and this story misses inclusion in DC's Batman by Neal Adams set, although Adams provided half of the art for the story in this issue, taking over when an ailing Jim Aparo couldn't finish the job.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 25, 2024 17:57:16 GMT -5
TALES TO ASTONISH #85 I always thought Bill Everett was underappreciated as a Hulk artist.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 25, 2024 17:33:46 GMT -5
I'll be heading to Memphis to celebrate the life of the second of my two best friends, both of whom have died this year. I'll be with you CCF friends next time.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 20, 2024 10:22:22 GMT -5
I notice that the collection of NIGHT NURSE #5 pencils which I sampled above is from a story that ends on page 14. I suspect that, like many of the lower-tier Marvel comics of that era, they intended to save money by padding it with reprints. I wonder what would have been slotted here--a short romance from the 60's? a 5-pager from LINDA CARTER, STUDENT NURSE?
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 20, 2024 5:37:55 GMT -5
I've never heard that a fifth NIGHT NURSE was prepped, but there was a fifth issue of THE CAT that never got completed; maybe that's what you are thinking of? The Ramona Fradon pencils for that one are extant, and scans are pretty easy to find online. The 'tentative' #5 was mentioned in the comments here (scroll down to one dated August 13, 2015)
Who knows...as it's just a mention but no actual pics are provided. That said, I do have a big chore ahead trying to get the other 4. Thanks, Rags ! I found the proof: It makes sense that a fifth issue would have been in the works, since that was true of the other two comics in the sub-line when the ax fell. I didn't buy NIGHT NURSE at the time (that would have been embarrassing, and I didn't have any interest anyway), but the logo always stuck with me for some reason. When I read them years later, I found them to be my favorites of this female reader-seeking trio. I remember the explosion of gothic romance in the paperback market in the early 70's, and there was a lesser but still profitable boomlet of nurse romance paperbacks as well. DC tried for the gothic readers and failed with its pair of gothic comics and a heavy lean in that direction in HOUSE OF SECRETS, as well as in superhero comics like TEEN TITANS and even BATMAN.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 19, 2024 19:49:01 GMT -5
I heard a Night Nurse #5 was pencilled but never inked and was cancelled after #4. What else was 'prepped' but never made it to final print?
I've never heard that a fifth NIGHT NURSE was prepped, but there was a fifth issue of THE CAT that never got completed; maybe that's what you are thinking of? The Ramona Fradon pencils for that one are extant, and scans are pretty easy to find online. As for other never-published issues, there's SWAMP THING #25, which would have been the first issue establishing the unlikely team of Swamp Thing and Hawkman, which would have been ongoing, and TALES OF THE ZOMBIE #11, which reanimated Simon Garth. Both of them can also--at least partially--be found online.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 19, 2024 19:38:54 GMT -5
I was disappointed in claude.ai's breadth of knowledge on Hourman, so I spent a session correcting it and teaching it about the character. I went back to see if it retained anything and it didn't. Now it wants to go on and on about some "Miss Hourwoman" character, and it's forgotten everything I taught it about Thorndyke, Jimmy Martin, the Minutemen of America, and the evolution of the Hourman character. And it seemed so appreciative at the time!
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 5, 2024 18:19:00 GMT -5
I'm in, I need some socializing!
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 5, 2024 17:31:40 GMT -5
Anyone read Tim Conrad's Etc. ? I never heard of it until today. According to the credits he wrote it and did the layouts with someone else finishing the art - I wasn't able to find any interior page samples so no idea how it looks. Conrad changed his style from time to time even when not inked or finished by another artist, so I'm a bit leery of this one until I see more. I wasn't able to register the story, because the art was absolutely unbearable. Michael Davis was clearly relying on lots of photo reference and failing even with that aid. I was baffled that an artist so obviously not ready for the big leagues was given such a (relatively) high profile project. And then he was assigned a higher profile Prestige Format spin-off of the then-very-hot Grell Green Arrow series, which was partly saved by Gray Morrow's finishes. Unfortunately, Morrow's contributions couldn't make up for Davis's page composition choice that ruined virtually every page of the comic: Each left-right pair of pages has art spanning the center line, which was rendered unreadable thanks to the square-bound binding.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 3, 2024 21:32:31 GMT -5
It's gotta be frustrating when a prestige package like the Amalgam book has to leave one issue out. which one? JLX
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